Movies like Stick
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Stick (1985)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ernest (Stick) Stickley just out of prison agrees to help a friend deliver a package. It's a setup and his friend is killed. Stick is going to find out why!
Style:
perverse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, revenge, gangsters, betrayal, murder, assassin, criminal, ex convict, albino, death of friend, thief, kidnapping, death, new life, new love, investigation, best friends, vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, police detective, dishonesty, love, mafia, drugs ...
Time:
80s
Place:
miami, usa, florida
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, rivalry, gangsters, gunfight, violence, revenge and vengeance mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Stick: Heat (1986), Sharky's Machine (1981), Stiletto (2008), Payback: Straight Up (2006), Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, killer, bodyguard, castration, rape, gambler, prostitute, casino, tough guy, psychopath, tough heroes, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
las vegas, usa, venice
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Accompanied by an all-star jazz soundtrack, Sharky's new "machine" gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sexy, neo noir, melancholic ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, police investigation, prostitute, scam, corruption, law enforcement, police, murder, suspense, partners, fighting crime, prostitution ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, atlanta georgia, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, sexy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gangsters, vengeance, police investigation, hitman, criminal's revenge, tough heroes, police detective, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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79%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
neo noir, ambiguous ending, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, vengeance, criminal, prostitute, organized crime, criminal's revenge, corrupt cop, crime boss, husband wife relationship, fish out of water, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A debt collector for the mob (Academy Award(R)-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.) finds his fate taking a series of treacherous turns after his powerful boss and mentor (Miguel Ferrer) is caught in a dangerous double cross with the most dangerous drug dealer ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, revenge, drug dealing, gunfight, tough heroes, rivalry, violence spree, criminal heroes, vengeance, gang, hitman, bodyguard ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, puerto rican, mafia, drug dealing, gang, master criminal, vengeance, best friends, betrayal, police corruption, criminal heroes, tragic hero ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
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69%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, cia agent, murder, undercover, uninhibited rivalry, on the run, rivalry, dishonesty, chase, tough heroes, spy, revenge ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon, los angeles, langley virginia
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64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After his mistress is murdered a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, betrayal, hitman, murder, mob boss, female nudity, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, one man army, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida, usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, hitman, rivalry, aging, elderly, one last chance, law enforcement, dishonesty, criminal heroes, mafia, investigation, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the ...
Style:
neo noir, psychotronic, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, gangsters, mafia, tough guy, exploitation, gang, city, organized crime, bad father, african american gangster, legal, martial arts ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1965, year 1972 ...
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial ...
Style:
exciting, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, violence, teenager, exploitation, vietnam war, city, vigilantism, vengeance, racism, interracial relations, murder, brutality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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56%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from ...
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serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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55%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, taxi, auto mechanic, taxi driver, teenager, woman with a gun, gang, vengeance, murder, crime gone awry, tough law enforcer, investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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55%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
frame up, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, tough heroes, dishonesty, betrayal, rivalry, twists and turns, organized crime, murder, criminal, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious ...
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serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, murder, spy, debt, aikido, redemption, introspection, dishonesty, life is a bitch, downfall, father daughter relationship, police corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a ...
Style:
stylized, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
gangsters, revenge, hitman, murder, vengeance, lone wolves, brutality, rivalry, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, adaptation, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, las vegas, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Style:
tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
family relations, police, gangsters, family problems, criminal heroes, love, dishonesty, betrayal, family reunited, police detective, rivalry, honest law enforcer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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45%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style:
exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover cop, murder, suspense, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
suspense, monster, police officer, renegade, police detective, prostitute, undercover, gangsters, chase, computer cracker, police corruption, working undercover ...
Time:
90s
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41%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church who is accused of ...
Style:
suspenseful, sexy, intense, serious, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brutality, murder, twists and turns, fighting crime, reluctant partners, track down, witnessing a crime, cons and scams, police officer, police investigation, prostitute, violent ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, usa, new jersey, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago illinois, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, undercover, police detective, criminal heroes, police investigation, gang, juvenile delinquency, working undercover, police corruption, urban ghetto life, society, drug dealing ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jack Davis is a tough, outspoken cop who finds himself wrongly accused for the death of a fellow agent by the depraved and power hungry chief of Miami Customs, Martin Cullen. Disgraced and dismissed, Jack swears revenge and goes to work for Roberto ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, police officer, fight, mafia, police, revenge, gangsters, chase, hitman, police investigation, justice, car chase ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop. But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the ...
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Audience:
boys' night
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Time:
80s
Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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35%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago – smuggling – to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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34%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
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Audience:
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